HOCKENHEIM, Germany (Reuters) - Jenson Button is fit to drive in the German Formula One Grand Prix following a visit to hospital for a precautionary check-up after a piece of carbon dust lodged in his eye during practice on Friday.

“I was driving down the pit straight when I got something in my eye,” Button was quoted as saying in a statement issued by McLaren. “It wasn’t stuck in my eye, but it was a foreign body, which the hospital washed out and removed.

“It scratched my eye, so I’ve been given some eye drops – but all is good. I don’t know what it was – maybe a piece of carbon dust, which has happened to me before.”